Website:
grainvilleindia.com
Job details:
Location: Grainville India Plant, Kidana–Tuna Road, Near Gandhidham, Kachchh, Gujarat
Employment: Full-time, on-site
Experience: 10–18 years preferred
Reporting to: Founder & Managing Director
About Grainville
Grainville India Private Limited is a growing rice-processing and international export company supplying Indian rice to customers across the Middle East, North America, Europe, Australia and other global markets.
Our Gujarat facility has an installed processing capacity of approximately 10 MT per hour and handles cleaning, de-stoning, silky polishing, optical sorting, grading, consumer and bulk packing, storage and container loading.
We are looking for an experienced, hands-on and technology-oriented Plant Head to take complete ownership of the facility.
About the role
The Plant Head will be responsible for production, quality, food safety, maintenance, manpower, inventory, packing, warehouse, dispatch and plant administration.
This is not a role limited to production supervision. The selected candidate will be expected to run the facility as an accountable business unit, ensure timely execution of export orders, improve productivity and yield, strengthen plant discipline and implement Grainville’s enterprise system across plant operations.
Key responsibilities
Plant leadership and execution
- Take complete responsibility for day-to-day plant performance.
- Convert export orders and dispatch schedules into production, packing and loading plans.
- Coordinate raw-material availability, packaging materials, inspections, manpower and container schedules.
- Conduct daily production and dispatch reviews.
- Identify and escalate shortages, quality risks, breakdowns and delays before they affect shipments.
- Coordinate with corporate office teams including procurement, sales, logistics, quality, accounts and HR.
Production and process control
- Manage cleaning, de-stoning, polishing, sortex, grading, blending and packing operations.
- Optimise machine settings and process flow according to rice variety and buyer specifications.
- Monitor input, output, yield, recovery, wastage, rejection and reprocessing.
- Establish measurable output and efficiency targets for each section.
- Ensure proper line clearance and product changeover between varieties, grades, brands and customers.
- Maintain order-wise and lot-wise production traceability.
- Reduce idle time, rework, process losses and avoidable material wastage.
Quality and food safety
- Ensure compliance with approved customer and product specifications.
- Coordinate sampling, laboratory testing, buyer inspections and release of finished goods.
- Ensure compliance with BRCGS, HACCP, ISO 22000 and applicable food-safety requirements.
- Maintain strict standards of hygiene, housekeeping, pest control and employee practices.
- Prevent infestation, contamination, foreign matter, odour, cross-mixing and product deterioration.
- Lead investigation of deviations, rejected lots and customer complaints.
- Ensure proper root-cause analysis and corrective and preventive action.
- Maintain readiness for customer, certification and regulatory audits.
- Ensure that only approved material is packed and dispatched.
Packing, warehouse and dispatch
- Ensure correct packing in consumer and bulk formats across different bag types and pack sizes.
- Verify artwork, printing, coding, stitching, zipper, marking, weight and buyer-specific requirements.
- Maintain strict segregation of brands, buyers, rice varieties, specifications and packing material.
- Control underweight, overweight, damaged and incorrectly printed bags.
- Ensure accurate inward, production, finished-goods and packaging-material records.
- Maintain FIFO, lot-wise movement, physical stock verification and reconciliation.
- Supervise container inspection, cleanliness, loading pattern, quantity, sealing and photographic records.
- Coordinate dispatch with the logistics team and prevent shortages, delays and loading errors.
Maintenance, utilities and safety
- Establish preventive and breakdown-maintenance systems.
- Ensure timely maintenance of sortex machines, polishers, graders, conveyors, compressors, packing machines and utilities.
- Maintain machine history, breakdown records, maintenance schedules and critical-spares lists.
- Reduce unplanned downtime and improve equipment availability.
- Monitor electricity, fuel, compressed air and other utility consumption.
- Coordinate with equipment manufacturers and maintenance vendors.
- Ensure machinery, electrical, fire and workplace safety.
Manpower and administration
- Plan and deploy employees, supervisors, contractual labour and service providers.
- Define responsibilities, shifts, output targets and performance expectations.
- Build discipline, accountability and a food-safety-focused work culture.
- Ensure proper attendance, shift handover and manpower utilisation.
- Train employees on SOPs, hygiene, quality, safety and system usage.
- Coordinate employee matters with the corporate HR team.
- Develop second-line supervisors so the plant does not depend on one individual.
Cost, reporting and technology
- Monitor processing cost, labour cost, packing cost, maintenance cost and utilities.
- Analyse product-wise and order-wise yield, recovery and wastage.
- Prepare accurate daily, weekly and monthly reports covering production, stock, quality, maintenance, manpower and dispatch.
- Compare planned versus actual performance and explain major variances.
- Work with the Founder and Business Systems team to implement Grainville’s enterprise platform.
- Map and digitise inward, production, quality, packing, inventory, maintenance and outward workflows.
- Ensure timely and accurate entries by responsible employees.
- Implement traceability, approvals, alerts and management dashboards.
- Use data and technology to improve productivity, quality, control and decision-making.
Candidate profile
- 10–18 years of experience in rice milling, rice processing, food processing or a comparable manufacturing environment.
- Experience independently managing an entire plant or a major production facility.
- Strong practical knowledge of rice cleaning, sortex, grading, polishing, blending and packing.
- Experience handling export-quality rice and customer-specific specifications.
- Understanding of production planning, inventory, maintenance, manpower and dispatch.
- Working knowledge of BRCGS, HACCP, ISO 22000 or similar food-safety systems.
- Experience handling inspections, audits, complaints and CAPA.
- Strong leadership, discipline, problem-solving and commercial understanding.
- Ability to monitor yield, wastage, cost and productivity.
- Strong Excel, reporting and data-analysis capability.
- Comfortable with ERP, production systems and technology-enabled working.
- Willing to be based full-time at the Grainville facility near Gandhidham, Gujarat.
Preference will be given to candidates with experience in basmati and non-basmati rice, export-oriented plants, consumer and bulk packaging, private-label production, international inspections and ERP implementation.
A degree or diploma in engineering, food technology, production or a related discipline is preferred. Strong practical plant-management capability will be given greater importance than qualification alone.
What success will look like
- Establish disciplined production, packing and dispatch planning.
- Improve visibility over stock, yield, wastage and plant performance.
- Ensure timely execution of export orders.
- Strengthen hygiene, traceability, audit readiness and product quality.
- Reduce breakdowns, rework, packing errors and avoidable delays.
- Establish accountability across plant employees and supervisors.
- Implement reliable reporting and enterprise-system usage.
- Run the plant with complete ownership and reduce routine management dependency on the Founder.
How to apply
Please email your updated CV with the following details:
- Largest rice or food-processing facility managed and its capacity.
- Experience with sortex, rice processing and packing.
- One measurable improvement made in yield, productivity, quality or cost.
- Experience with BRCGS, HACCP, ISO or customer audits.
- ERP or production software used.
- Current CTC, expected CTC and notice period.
- Earliest confirmed joining date.
- Confirmation that you are willing to be based near Gandhidham, Gujarat.
Candidates who can join immediately or at short notice will be preferred. Suitable candidates may be interviewed and finalised quickly.
Email: ishita@grainvilleindia.com
CC: nikhil@grainvilleindia.com
Mobile/WhatsApp: +91 95604 44138
Subject: Application – Plant Head, Gujarat
Plant address:
Grainville India Private Limited
Units 2–4, Survey No. 81, Kidana–Tuna Road
Near Renuka Sugar, Kachchh, Gujarat – 370203
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